Engineering and science students flocked to the Arrillaga Alumni Center this past Saturday for the annual Opportunity Job Fair, hosted by the Stanford School of Engineering.
Ninety companies ran recruiting booths at the fair, including Microsoft, Boeing and Volkswagen.
“The Opportunity Job Fair focuses on introducing leading engineering and science corporations to Stanford’s engineering students,” said junior [...]

Speaker Paul Findley offered ‘hysterical claims’, not facts
Olivia Sohns (“Congressman’s Speech Deserved Coverage,” Jan. 28) complains that The Daily did not cover the speech of Paul Findley, the veteran ex-Congressman that was brought to Stanford by the Stanford Coalition for Justice in the Middle East.
As Sohns writes, the gist of Findley’s speech was that the [...]

Nigger. Raghead. Chink. Kike.
These are words you probably aren’t used to hearing too often — and with good reason. They’re unacceptable forms of bigotry and racism.
But what about the word “faggot”? A recent conversation among friends reminded me that the word, and a generalized acceptance of homophobia, is still alive and well, even on an [...]

Last year a Stanford law student named Mike Zummer wrote an e-mail to his classmates explaining why he was departing to serve in Iraq. A former Marine and FBI agent, Zummer wrote: “When Marines are fighting, it is a fellow Marine’s duty to help them. That is our ethos. I couldn’t stay protected while my [...]

The first time I came across someone who had listed his phone number on his Thefacebook.com profile, I thought, “That’s crazy. I’d never do that. It’s bad enough that I get random e-mails.” I take that back. I thank all of you who have listed your phone numbers on Thefacebook.com for making my life easier. [...]

The grand opening of the graduate student pub, initially slated for this quarter, has been delayed until mid-April.
Members of the Graduate Student Council hope that the completed pub, located at the Graduate Community Center in Escondido Village, will foster interactions between students from different departments.
Renovation problems are responsible for the delay, according to Moriah Thomason, [...]

Chemistry Prof. Richard Zare recently received the 2005 Wolf Prize in Chemistry, a $100,000 award granted by the Israel-based Wolf Foundation to only one person in the field each year.
Zare was recognized for his work with laser techniques used to identify intricate molecular mechanisms.
“Zare’s inventions and discoveries have generated an impressive collection of new spectroscopic [...]

The Peking University Performing Arts Troupe kicked off its first U.S. tour with a performance in a packed Memorial Auditorium Saturday afternoon.
The troupe’s performance included dance, chorus, orchestra and folk music, and it featured performers from more than 20 departments and schools within the university.
The group, which consists entirely of students, is touring the country [...]

In separate incidents this past weekend, two intruders caused trouble in Stanford undergraduate dormitories, Stanford Police said yesterday.
Friday evening, a middle-aged man entered Storey House and followed a female resident into the women’s bathroom. Resident Assistant Ramit Sethi, a co-terminal student, called the police, and the man was arrested shortly thereafter.
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A large voter turnout and a minimum of violence quieted international fears about Iraq’s historic election as the polls closed yesterday at 5 p.m. Iraq time, 6 a.m. Pacific Standard Time.
“The world is hearing the voice of freedom from the center of the Middle East,” President George W. Bush said in a White House address [...]